Head instructor Anthony Waichulis recently posed this question on his Facebook page and to the students of our America campus in New Jersey while visiting for a lecture. This is a long-running and disputed question, so as you can imagine, the responses were decidedly mixed.
As a follow-up, Anthony wrote a thoughtful, in-depth article explaining much of this argument. You can read a small part of it below, and the full article is linked below.
“Color is defined in various ways across many different contexts and disciplines. As one might expect, preferred usages of the term are governed by contextual utility—one that often includes an appeal to our penchant for projection. As such, many useful definitions tend to regard color as a property of our environment. To be fair, such usages do allow us to navigate otherwise overly complex interactions in a far simpler way. But, as is common with practices that favor utility over what is the case, carrying a convenient fiction into different contexts can quickly get you into an inconvenient bind.”
